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..the remarkable similarity in the story of their lives: (87:3)

1.They were both youthful (87:4)

2.They were both known for their meekness and loving kindness (87:5)

3.They both performed healing miracles (87:6)

4.The period of their ministry was very brief in each case, and moved with dramatic swiftness to its climax (87:7)

5.Both of them boldly challenged the time-honoured conventions, laws, and rites of the religions into which they had been born (87:8)

6.They courageously condemned the unbridled graft and corruption which they saw on every side, both religious and secular (87:9)

7.The purity of their own lives shamed the people among whom they taught (87:10)

8.Their chief enemies were among the religious leaders of the land. These officials were the instigators of the outrages they were made to suffer (87:11)

9.They both had indignities heaped upon them (87:12)

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